Baseball

Seoul – Cheerleaders danced beneath rows of empty seats and umpires wore protective masks as a new baseball season began in South Korea. After a weeks-long delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, a hushed atmosphere allowed sounds like the ball hitting the catcher’s mitt and the crack of bats connecting […]

Bristol, Connecticut – ESPN will begin airing six regular-season games per week from South Korea’s Korea Baseball Organization. The agreement with Eclat Media Group was announced Monday, the day before the league is scheduled to open its season. The first game featuring the NC Dinos taking on the Samsung Lions […]

Matt Keough, who won 45 games for the Central League’s Hanshin Tigers from 1987-89 and whose father also played professionally in Japan, has died at the age of 64, MLB’s Oakland Athletics said Saturday. Keough, a special assistant with Oakland, was a member of the American League club’s formidable starting […]

With Major League Baseball’s regular season in limbo, Japan’s major leaguers are riding out the coronavirus pandemic, waiting for word on when and how they will be able to play ball once again. If any single player can be said to benefit from the layoff, in which players have been […]

Williamsport, Pennsylvania – This year’s Little League World Series and the championship tournaments in six other Little League divisions have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Little League President Stephen Keener announced the cancellations in a Facebook Live broadcast Thursday afternoon from league headquarters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, saying it […]

Pitcher Carter Stewart, last season’s history-making signing for the Pacific League’s Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, is learning to make the most of his eye-opening opportunity to play in Japan while dealing with the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. In a joint interview with Kyodo News and the Japan Baseball Weekly […]

New York – Major League Baseball is exploring various options that could allow the season to start if the medical situation allows, including a plan in which the 30 teams could be split into three regional divisions. Among the formats is one in which teams could be restricted to playing […]

Kosuke Fukudome was surprised with a small cake and some birthday wishes by a couple of teammates during a workout at Koshien Stadium on Sunday. That, however, probably wasn’t the way the Hanshin Tigers outfielder had envisioned celebrating his 43rd birthday. If everything had gone according to plan, the Tigers […]

New York – A major league official testified he suggested Angel Hernandez be removed from consideration for the 2015 World Series because he did not think Commissioner Rob Manfred would approve the umpire to work baseball’s premier event. Hernandez sued Major League Baseball in 2017, alleging race discrimination and cited […]

Los Angeles – Retired Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully has been hospitalized after falling at his Los Angeles-area home. The team says the 92-year-old fell Tuesday and was taken to the hospital for observation. Scully is resting comfortably and is expected to be released soon. « I won’t be doing […]